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printed songs, and also a volume of songs in his autograph. The story of his life is in teresting, but too long to detail in * N. & Q.' suffice it to say he left Oxford and settlec in London, where he was patronized b Charles II. He died on 23 July, 1685, anc was buried in St. Giles Vin-the-Fields, London
 * ' Arise, ye subterranean winds." I have hi*

The music of * Psyche' and 'The Tempest were published together in one volume, with the following title : " The English Opera, or the Vocal Musick in Psyche, with the instru- mental therein intermix'd. To which is adjoyned the instrumental Musick in the Tempest. By Matthew Lock, Composer in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Organist to the Queen. Licensed 1675. Roger L'Estrange."

The reference in the preface to Draghi speaks of both * Psyche ' and ' The Tempest. The music of * Psyche' fills sixty -one pages of the volume, whilst ' The Tempest ' occupies only fourteen, and is entirely instrumental. It commences on p. 62 with the heading, " The instrumental musick used in the Tem- pest." I may add that I possess two copies of the book. WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

GERMAN VOLKSLIBD (10 th S. ii. 327, 351). Who was Edouard von Feuchtersleben 1 The person mentioned by me as author of <J Es ist bestimmt," in my reply which was crowded out, was Ernst, Freiherr von Feuch- tersleben, a physician and Under-Secretary of State, born at Vienna 1806, died there 1849. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[MR. JOHX HEBB also refers to Ernst von Feuchtersleben as the author.]

THOMAS BEACH, THE PORTRAIT PAINTER <10 th S. ii. 285, 332). I have a portrait, by Beach, of Signor Tenducci, the Italian singer and composer: canvas 30 in. x24in.; half- figure to left, holding a music book in his left hand ; red coat, powdered wig. It was painted in 1782, and has been engraved in mezzotint by W. Dickinson. H.

THE MUSSUK (10 th S. ii. 263, 329). Is not COL. PRIDEAUX unduly hard on the English 1 He accounts for the Persian mashk and lihishti appearing in our language as mussuk and bheesty by saying that we seem to have a difficulty in pronouncing sh before a con- sonant. For the defence I feel bound to point out, firstly, that a similar change occurs between vowels, as in the Anglo-Indian mussdlchee (scullion) from Persian mashdlchi ; secondly, that in most of the Indian dialects (not only Hindustani, but Bengali, Sindhi, <fcc.) the sh of Persian and Arabic loan-words is colloquially sounded s, so that it seems fairest to look upon English mussuk, bheesty,

arid mussdlchee as faithful copies of the vulgar Hindustani masak, bhisti, and masdlchi. The same change takes place initially, e.g., shaitan (Satan), shakar (sugar), and sheikh (elder) become Hindustani saitan, sakar, and seikh. JAMES PLATT, Jun.

4 RELIQULE WOTTONIAN.E ' (10 th S. ii. 326).

-The words "meiner gavislich ingedanck

sein " are obviously intended for meiner

geiviszlich in Gedank seyn i.e., that he would

"certainly bear me in mind."

R. E. FRANCILLON.

The words meiner ganzlich eingedenk sein in modern German, meaning "to be entirely mindful of me," seem to explain the expression in Wotton's letter of 21 April, 1591. Gavislich must be a misprint ; and ingedanck would be the Middle High German for eingedenk. See the dictionary of C. F. Grieb arranged by Dr. A. Schroer.

E. S. DODGSON.

HEACHAM PARISH OFFICERS (10 th S. ii. 247, 335). MR. J. T. PAGE'S statements regarding parish constables are correct, and will be of service to some of those who read his reply, for a baseless opinion is held by many that the office of parish constable has been ren- dered useless by the creation of the county police force. In Lincolnshire it is sometimes the duty of the parish constable to collect the rate levied by the Court of Sewers for keeping in order certain drains. If his office were abolished, it is probable that in some cases an Act of Parliament would have to be obtained before this money could be legally gathered. A COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS.

Y (10 th S. ii. 186, 316). It would take up a very great deal of space to give the history of the use of y in English. I merely here Briefly indicate some of the results.

In Anglo-Saxon the sounds of i and ?/ were originally distinct ; the latter represented the sound of the modern G. ii, which was also the tound into which the old Greek u (originally ihe u in full) had already passed at so early i date that the symbol y was introduced into The oldest Latin had neither the symbol nor the sound. Hence the French name ygrec is appropriate.
 * he Latin alphabet in order to represent it.

In MSS. of Alfred's time the symbols i nd y are usually correctly used to discrimi- nate between the two sounds, according to he etymology. See Sweet's edition of Alfred's ranslation of Gregory's * Pastoral Care.' In later Anglo-Saxon the sounds were sometimes confused, and the symbols were accordingly wrongly used. Thus I open my